Starting an Android Service

Question

Sorry if this is a dumb question but how do initiate an android service? I cant figure out the error code on public class scilentservice extends IntentService { (see code below). I think it might have something to do with the intent but i'm not positive. What I want is for my app to start the service which would then auto science the phone at certain times. Here is my code

/**
 * Created by Abe on 3/29/2015.
 */

import android.app.IntentService;
import android.content.Intent;

public class scilentservice extends IntentService {
    @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent workIntent) {
        // Gets data from the incoming Intent
        String dataString = workIntent.getDataString();
        ...
        // Do work here, based on the contents of dataString
        ...
    }
}
`

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

This question will get downvoted and possibly closed because it's basic information found with a simple Google Search. Please look at the documentation linked in the comments and then the next step on how to send a request… this is the Android documentation.

Snippet:

Create a new, explicit Intent for the IntentService called RSSPullService.

/*
 * Creates a new Intent to start the RSSPullService
 * IntentService. Passes a URI in the
 * Intent's "data" field.
 */
mServiceIntent = new Intent(getActivity(), RSSPullService.class);
mServiceIntent.setData(Uri.parse(dataUrl));

Call startService()

// Starts the IntentService
getActivity().startService(mServiceIntent);

The intentService code:

public class RSSPullService extends IntentService {

    public RSSPullService() {
        super("RSSPullService");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onHandleIntent(Intent intent) {
        //Do the work here.
    }
}